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Paul Theroux

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born
in Medford, Massachusetts, The United States
April 10, 1941

gender
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Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Travel


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Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travel writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast.


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Average rating: 3.81 · 44,484 ratings · 3,827 reviews · 118 distinct works · Similar authors
The Great Railway Bazaar
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 5,379 ratings — published 1975 — 33 editions
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Dark Star Safari: Overland ...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 4,907 ratings — published 2002 — 21 editions
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The Mosquito Coast
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 4,072 ratings — published 1981 — 29 editions
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Riding the Iron Rooster
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 3,720 ratings — published 1983 — 19 editions
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The Old Patagonian Express:...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 3,105 ratings — published 1979 — 21 editions
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Happy Isles of Oceania: Pad...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 2,186 ratings — published 1992 — 16 editions
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Ghost Train to the Eastern ...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 2,147 ratings — published 2008 — 27 editions
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The Pillars of Hercules
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,668 ratings — published 1995 — 18 editions
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The Kingdom by the Sea
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,442 ratings — published 1983 — 20 editions
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Hotel Honolulu
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 1,014 ratings — published 2001 — 16 editions
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“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”
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“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
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“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
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